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Timothybil said:
Now that I have been informed about the size of the trit slot, how deep is the magnet hole? And what is an accepted way to fasten the trit vial and/or the magnet to the tail?
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The Magnet hole is 5mm x 3mm deep.

I plan on using clear UV cure glue for both.
 
Wow...I "tried" to buy 3 of these and use the steps to get a discount...what a nightmare...and the site won't let you use paypal or other protected means...very sketchy.

Is there no other way?
 
LeanBurn said:
Wow...I "tried" to buy 3 of these and use the steps to get a discount...what a nightmare...and the site won't let you use paypal or other protected means...very sketchy.

Is there no other way?
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That’s exactly what I said. I literally had a random person send me a message telling me I could get a cheaper price by giving him my credit card info. No identifiers whatsoever with this person. I asked him if I needed to go ahead and cancel my paypal purchase and he said no that they would do it manually. I wish I’d saved all the correspondence just weird the way it was done.
 
So once I have everything sitting in the cart and message them with the other forum username, what do you do next...just pay and pray?
 
I didn’t even attempt it. I just paid what they had them listed for. They can keep a couple of bucks.
 
Bigburly912 said:
I didn’t even attempt it. I just paid what they had them listed for. They can keep a couple of bucks.
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Yup, me too. It was a good bargain even at US$8.44 or whatever I paid. (Actually, I got one for $7.02, and two others for $8.44 each).

I'm not a member of the other forum, so it did not feel right to get their discount in any case. And the extra steps in the process seemed, as leanburn put it, "sketchy".
 
LeanBurn said:
So once I have everything sitting in the cart and message them with the other forum username, what do you do next...just pay and pray?
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You are supposed to leave your BLF username in the little comments section of the order and wait.
Someone from the store will eventually manually lower the price.

It's a wonky process, but I'm sure they only want to give that price to BLF members who participated in the interest list. No idea if they check that list or not before applying the discount.
 
Pretty clear if you read first post on BLF. There are specific directions.
Most seem to be getting it to work.
 
I too thought the process had room for improvement, but I received the lights at the promised price. I have a PayPal card that allows me to use PayPal just like any other card so I feel protected. Early on there were other “group buys” that seemed less than desirable but over time the processes improved....
 
ordered nov. 12
received dec. 7 in rural NY state (500km from NY city)

I am liking this thing more as I use it. I put a low battery (0.9v) into it 24 hours ago, and got useful light from it all night long. It is still going the same right now.

"Useful light" for me means 0.1 - 0.2 lumens. That means that with dark-adapted eyes, I can use it to navigate around the house, even in completely dark rooms, *and* see the black dog on the black carpet so I don't trip over him. I can stand at one end of a dark room 7 meters long, shine it on the opposite wall, and see all of the objects on the bookshelf. (I could not read the titles, but I could clearly see all of the boundaries, as well as the other, non-book items on the shelves.) It means that I can read in bed and hold the light far enough from the book so that it illuminates the entire page.

Although I did not take it outside, I think it would have allowed me to navigate a woodland path at a careful walking pace. No mountain-biking, x-c skiing, or even trail-running. But it would easily allow you to see the roots and rocks at your feet and for 3 - 5 meters ahead of you.

last night I compared it to my 4/7s Atom0, which claims a low of 0.25 lumens. It was a bit dimmer than that in ceiling-bounce, but also a bit more concentrated.

So that's moonlight mode, and it is still shining on as we speak. I don't want to turn it off, because I want to see what the end voltage is when it shuts off. Then I'll let it recover a bit, and see what its lowest start-up voltage is.

I guess if you have a regulated DC power supply this sort of test is trivial -- you just turn down the power-supply until the light turns off, and then turn it up from zero until it goes on. Anyone want to report results on that?
 
My parcel was processed through customs in Miami this morning! Just when I was thinking it had been lost.
 
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Mine, as far as I can tell, was lost in Chicago. It says in transit to next facility as it has for the last few days. I’m in Virginia and it never even got close to heading here unless you count the strange occurrence of a Georgia popping up on my tracking shortly after New Jersey
 
lampeDépêche said:
I am liking this thing more as I use it. I put a low battery (0.9v) into it 24 hours ago, and got useful light from it all night long. It is still going the same right now.
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Congrats! and thanks for the reports :-)

Bigburly912 said:
Mine, as far as I can tell, was lost in Chicago.
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I think Bigburly912's lights, Win the Most Bunny Hops inside the USA prize
I hope USPS gets their act together in time for Xmas

my order as been in USA, 30 miles away, for the past 3 days

the last package I got, from Hawaii, sat inside my local post office for 3 days.. USPS is not very efficient in my area
 
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